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存在未观测效应修饰变量时冲突试验的回归式近端协调AI 解读

Randomized controlled trials with similar protocols may yield conflicting findings when the distribution of relevant effect modifiers differs across study populations. Yet no formal statistical framework exists for defining and assessing whether conflicting trials are reconcilable, despite the importance of this question for evidence synthesis and regulatory decision making. To address this gap, we develop a causal inference framework for evaluating conditional and marginal…

有限总体中的单调性检验AI 解读

We consider the extent to which we can learn from a completely randomized experiment whether all individuals have treatment effects that are weakly of the same sign, a condition we call monotonicity. From a classical sampling perspective, it is well-known that monotonicity is not falsifiable. We show that from the design-based perspective---in which the potential outcomes are fixed and only treatment assignment is stochastic---that the distribution of treatment effects in…

干扰成分投影后的识别与信息AI 解读

Empirical work often removes fixed effects, latent factors, or high-dimensional controls before estimating structural relationships. These transformations reduce confounding but may also remove identifying variation. We study linear panel IV after one equation-compatible nuisance projection under two-way dependence. The projected Jacobian determines which structural directions remain visible; the projected-score law determines their precision; and, on Gaussian fixed-rank…

Probit 回归中的强对数凹性AI 解读

We show that strong log-concavity emerges in probit regression likelihoods without ridge penalization (i.e. Gaussian priors), unlike for the logistic case. Specifically, we provide: (a) a non-asymptotic characterization of strong log-concavity for fixed designs, similar to that for the existence of the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) and (b) an asymptotic analysis for random designs, in the proportional regime when the sample size $n$ and the number of covariates $d$ grow…

函数型因果推断框架中的广义倾向得分加权AI 解读

Estimating causal effects in observational studies requires adjustment for confounding, a task that becomes challenging when the exposure is a function observed over a continuous domain rather than a scalar variable. We develop a functional propensity score weighting framework that achieves covariate balance by removing dependence between time-varying treatments and observed confounders, thereby enabling estimation of marginal causal effects in settings with functional…

脏空气惩罚的持续性：F1 2022 年地面效应规则的因果分析AI 解读

In early 2022, FIA mandated the change to the technical regulations for Formula 1, requiring to design cars around ground effect aerodynamics to mitigate the performance loss incurred by driving in the turbulent "Dirty Air" of another car. The reduction of the penalty was subsequently claimed, but never formally evaluated on a per lap basis. We gathered 100486 racing laps for the years 2021-2025 using the FastF1 API, built a compound-specific physics correction for Dirty Air…

时变神谕治疗策略的性能界限AI 解读

Much causal inference research is focused on methods for optimizing dynamic treatment regimes (Murphy, 2003; Robins, 2004; Schulte et al., 2015), which are rules for deciding which treatments should be assigned and when based on evolving history. There is a certain optimism underlying this endeavor that with enough tinkering we might realize consequential improvements. Another strand of research, previously confined to the point exposure setting, considers bounds on how well…

面板数据中所选群组的条件选择后推断AI 解读

We consider the problem of testing for differences in group-specific slopes between the selected groups in panel data identified via k-means clustering. In this setting, the classical Wald-type test statistic is problematic because it produces an extremely inflated type I error probability. The underlying reason is that the same dataset is used to identify the group structure and construct the test statistic, simultaneously. This creates dependence between the selection and…

连接预测与归因：利用同化因果推断识别前向与后向因果影响范围AI 解读

Causal inference identifies cause-and-effect relationships between variables. While traditional approaches rely on data to reveal causal links, a recently developed method, assimilative causal inference (ACI), integrates observations with dynamical models. It utilizes Bayesian data assimilation to trace causes back from observed effects by quantifying the reduction in uncertainty. ACI advances the detection of instantaneous causal relationships and the intermittent reversal…

随机干预效应的校准贝叶斯推断AI 解读

Causal inference increasingly extends beyond classical causal effects defined by deterministic treatment assignments, such as the average treatment effect, to stochastic intervention effects that can weaken positivity requirements and offer greater policy relevance. Nonparametric Bayesian models are attractive for estimating these effects due to their flexibility and inherent uncertainty propagation, but this posterior uncertainty need not be well calibrated for the causal…

通过样本协方差矩阵对网络时间序列进行谱聚类AI 解读

Spectral clustering for community detection is analysed in multivariate time series models whose dependence structure is determined by an unobserved stochastic blockmodel. We establish that spectral clustering of the sample covariance matrix achieves exact recovery of the underlying communities. The recovery rates depend explicitly on the network size, sample length, block separation, and degree of data dependence. This demonstrates that exact community recovery under a…

不可观测因素的效应检验：婚姻前景是否影响大学专业选择？AI 解读

This paper develops an econometric test for whether an unobservable factor jointly influences a choice among multiple alternatives and a subsequent binary outcome. Because only transformed versions of the choice model's unobservables are identified, we combine a copula-based joint model with results on the covariance between ordered and unordered normal variables to recover the covariance between structural shocks, yielding a simulation-based test for a common unobserved…

用离散选择模型逼近选择数据AI 解读

We obtain a necessary and sufficient condition under which random-coefficient discrete choice models, such as mixed-logit models, are rich enough to approximate any nonparametric random utility models arbitrarily well across choice sets. The condition turns out to be the affine-independence of the set of characteristic vectors. When the condition fails, resulting in some random utility models that cannot be closely approximated, we identify preferences and substitution…

时空因果推断中的异质性处理效应估计AI 解读

Scholars from diverse fields increasingly rely on high-frequency spatio-temporal data. Yet, causal inference with these data remains challenging due to spatial spillover and temporal carryover effects. We develop methods to estimate heterogeneous treatment effects by allowing for arbitrary spatial and temporal causal dependencies. We focus on common settings where the treatment and outcomes are time-varying spatial point patterns and where moderators are either spatial or…

交叉拟合折数较多时的去偏机器学习AI 解读

This paper studies debiased machine learning (DML) when the number of cross-fitting folds, $K_n$, may grow with the sample size $n$. Existing fixed-$K$ asymptotic theory implies that DML1 and DML2, the two main DML variants, are asymptotically equivalent, providing no guidance on which variant to use or how to choose $K_n$. We show that this equivalence can break down when $K_n$ grows proportionally to $\sqrt{n}$: DML1 can exhibit asymptotic bias, in which case standard…

意大利北部PM10评估的三种分布方法AI 解读

We propose three spatial methods for estimating the full probability distribution of PM10 concentrations, with the ultimate goal of assessing air quality in Northern Italy. Moving beyond spatial averages and simple indicators, we adopt a distributional perspective to capture the complex variability of pollutant concentrations across space. The first proposed approach predicts class-based compositions via Fixed Rank Kriging; the second estimates multiple, non-crossing…

多中介情形下自然直接与间接相对风险的回归方法AI 解读

Mediation analysis investigates whether part of the treatment effect is channelled through one or more mediators along the causal pathway between the treatment and the primary outcome. However, the presence of multiple, potentially dependent mediators raises substantial challenges, particularly when the outcome is binary, the mediators are measured on different scales, and interactions are present. We consider on causal mediation analysis with a binary treatment and a binary…

具有交互固定效应的高维面板模型：超越线性情形AI 解读

Modern economic panel data sets are often high-dimensional: they contain information on a wide variety of control variables whose number may even exceed the sample size. Nevertheless, the literature on econometric methods for high-dimensional panels is quite limited. In this paper, we study high-dimensional panel models with interactive fixed effects where the regression function has an additive structure, i.e., each covariate enters the model via an unknown nonlinear…

单人试验的因果推断AI 解读

The aim of personalized medicine is to tailor treatment decisions to individuals' characteristics. N-of-1 trials are within-person crossover trials that hold the promise of targeting individual-specific effects. While the idea behind N-of-1 trials might seem simple, analyzing and interpreting N-of-1 trials is not straightforward. Here we ground N-of-1 trials in a formal causal inference framework and formalize intuitive claims from the N-of-1 trials literature. We focus on…

相关分类结果的多变量多项Logit模型与ANOVA分解AI 解读

In medical research, patients often have multiple interdependent outcomes, such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and pain among trauma survivors. Most existing research uses multinomial regression to analyze these interdependent outcomes separately, which ignores correlations between concurrent conditions. This omission may lead to loss of information and reduced predictive accuracy. Accounting for correlations between multiple categorical outcomes…

基于核岭回归的条件平均处理效应迁移学习AI 解读

The proliferation of data has sparked significant interest in leveraging findings from one study to estimate treatment effects in a different target population without direct outcome observations. However, the transfer learning process is frequently hindered by substantial covariate shift and limited overlap between (i) the source and target populations, as well as (ii) the treatment and control groups within the source. We propose a novel method for overlap-adaptive…

小样本与短面板：用贴近实际的数据评估政策评价方法AI 解读

Methods for estimating causal effects in longitudinal, quasi-experimental settings are widely used in economics, public health, political science, and other fields. However, studies evaluating effects of health policies often rely on limited sample sizes, both in terms of study units and time periods analyzed. Synthetic difference-in-differences (SDiD) and the augmented synthetic control method (ASCM) are recently developed methods for evaluating the effects of policy…

观察性多层网络数据的回归估计AI 解读

A novel method to estimate social effect coefficients in the popular so-called linear-in-means regression model in the Social Sciences is presented here that utilizes non-experimental multidimensional network data. The procedure can accommodate social interactions that correlate with the error in the model by making use of a different set of network links among the same observations that are exogenous in the traditional sense. In particular, the full observability of a…

利用随机分配与观察网络数据估计社会效应AI 解读

This paper introduces an innovative approach to identifying and estimating the parameters of interest in the widely recognized linear-in-means regression model under conditions where the initial randomization of peers determines the observed network. We assert that peers who are initially randomized do not produce social effects. However, after randomization, agents can endogenously develop significant connections that potentially generate peer influences. We present a…